AT&T Long Lines

[VA-2]

Note

[VA-2] is a fictitious name.
AT&T Corporate Security has requested that the names and exact locations of active AT&T network facilities not be published.
Accordingly, such facilities are identified on this web site by fictitious names, shown in [brackets].

Description

The principal structure at [VA-2] is a two-level underground building, hardened against the effects of nuclear blasts.

History

[VA-2] opened around 1968 as a main station on the Boston-Miami coaxial-cable route.
It housed the AUTOVON-FTS Operations Center, which managed two important voice-communications networks serving the federal government:
the Department of Defense's Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) and the General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications System (FTS).